"Dr. Rice in the House", a "searing look at Condoleezza Rice" to be released

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Searing look at Condoleezza Rice

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NEW YORK (BlackNews.com)-Up until now one of the most powerful black women in America has remained outside serious critical consideration by the media or in public discussion. This month, a new anthology remedies the situation.

"Dr. Rice in the House" (Seven Stories Press, June 28, 2007), edited by Amy Scholder, addresses Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with rage, humor and scathing analysis from bestselling writers and highly acclaimed visual artists including Amiri Baraka, Coco Fusco, Faith Ringgold, Sapphire, Kara Walker, Jill Nelson, hattie gossett, Paul Robeson Jr. and Wanda Coleman.

The collection has been called "essential reading for Condi watchers" by Essence Magazine. Whether it is Jill Nelson's critique of Rice's ahistorical experience of her own success as an African American woman, Baraka's poetic search for who "blew up America," or Sapphire's hilarious scene in which Rice instructs President Bush on how to pronounce the word nuclear, "Dr. Rice in the House" is a highly critical but appropriately nuanced portrait of the political force and cultural phenomenon that is Condoleezza Rice.

"Dr. Rice In the House," Amy Scholder, ed. Current Affairs /African-American Studies June 28, 2007 | Paperback Original 5- 1/2 x 7-1/2 inches | 128 pages | $13.95 | 6 pages in full color 13/ISBN

http://www.frostillustrated.com/full.php?sid=1432

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1. Also, Twice as Good, another look at Condi

http://www.amazon.com/Twice-Good-Condoleezza-Rice-Power/dp/1594863628/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-2611806-1551942?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181091032&sr=8-1

Editorial Reviews

From The New Yorker

President George W. Bush has said of Condoleezza Rice, "Whatever she says, it’s like talking to me." Mabry writes that many of Rice’s sponsors, from Brent Scowcroft to a Marxist professor, have felt the same affinity, each to be "left scratching his head as he saw Rice make a 180-degree turn away from the core beliefs he thought they shared." Mabry, who had Rice’s coöperation here, succeeds in giving coherence to her character, from her roots in segregated Birmingham—where her middle-class parents were both inspired and mortified by Martin Luther King’s radicalism—to her broken engagement to the 1975 N.F.L. Rookie of the Year and her bond with George Bush. On Iraq, Mabry has less to offer, in part, perhaps, because of his subject’s detachment; her supreme self-confidence, he writes, has made it hard for her to recognize the disaster unfolding on her watch.